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" People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. "

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" As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. "

" It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. "

" The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. "

" The greatest wealth is to live content with little. "

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "

" Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. "

" The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. "

" A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. "

" Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. "

" I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. "

" There is no harm in repeating a good thing. "

" I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. "

" All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. "

" Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. "

" Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. "

" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

" Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. "

" He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. "

" Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. "

" Courage is a kind of salvation. "

" He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. "

" For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. "

" Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. "

" A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. "

" Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. "